SMITH, Robert Percy. 18?? — 1???. British Colonial Officer in India. Captain of Royal Artillery, signed his Preface in Bareilly (1890). There was an elder R.P.S., called “Bobus Smith” (1770–1845), the Judge Advocate General of Bengal and M.P., probably our man was named after him (but not his direct descendant). Publications: Urdu Grammar.…
SMITH, Lewis Ferdinand. 17?? — 18??. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Major Lewis Lucius Smith (d. 1794) of Indian army. Major in Scindia’s service. Secretary to Sir Harford Jones, Ambassador to Persia. Married with Ann Mitchell Nicholls, father of General Lucius Horton Smith (1793–1858). Publications: “A Chronological table of the…
SMART, Bath Charles. 1838 — 1887. British Physician interested in Gipsy Language. M.D. Worked in Manchester. Married Elizabeth Gurteen, widower 1867. Publications: The Dialect of the English Gypsies. 1863, 2nd rev. & enl. ed. with Henry Thomas Crofton. 23+302 p. L. 1875. Sources: Wikisource, wife’s name and death in Medical Journal, no…
SMALL, George. 1??? — 1???. Rev. Baptist Missionary in India. M.A. Worked in Calcutta and Benares, retired for health reasons in the early 1860s (another source: 1852). Married 1852 Ann Chadwick (née Lovegrove). In the Preface to his Sanskrit Literature the author admits to have collected his material from Indological books.…
SLATER, Samuel. 18?? — after 1896, before 1912. Rev. British Missionary and Educator in India. Graduated from King’s College, London. In 1847 arrived at Calcutta, ordained priest there. From 1850 Rector of St. Paul’s School, then Professor at Bishop’s College in Calcutta, retired in 1860 because of his wife’s health…
SLATER, Robert Henry Lawson. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 8.2.1896 — 24.12.1984. Rev. British Buddhist Scholar in North America. Son of Harold Slater and Jane Lawson. Grew up in Yorkshire. Lost early his parents and worked as reporter in Newcastle. From 1919 studies of Theology at Emmanuel College (B.A. 1922), Cambridge, then at Jesus College 1922-24.…
SKRINE, Clarmont Percival. London 28.2.1888 — 1974. British Civil Servant and Diplomat in India. Sir. Son of —> F. H. B. Skrine and Helen Lucy Stewart. Studies at Oxford. Joined I.C.S. in 1912, from 1915 in Indian political service. In 1916-19 British Vice-Consul in Kerman, Persia, in 1922-24 Consul-General in…
SKEMP, Frank Whittingham. Eccles, Lancashire 13.12.1880 — 1971. British Civil Servant in India. Studies at Manchester (M.A. 1904) and in preparation for I.C.S. at Cambridge 1903-04. Served in the Punjab. Married Dorothy Frazer, children. Publications: Multani Stories. Collected and translated. 81 p. Lahore 1917. Sources: Manchester graduate register upto 1908 (www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/university-of-manchester/the-victoria-university-of-manchester-register-of-graduates-up-to-july-1st-190-hci/page-34-the-victoria-university-of-manchester-register-of-graduates-up-to-july-1st-190-hci.shtml).
SIRR, Henry Charles. 1807 — London 23.11.1872. British (Irish) Lawyer and Diplomat. Son of Henry Charles Sirr (1764–1841), Town Major of Dublin, and Eliza D’Arcy (1767–1829). Graduated from Trinity College, Dublin. Called to bar at Lincoln’s Inn, London. British vice-consul at Hong Kong (1843), then queen’s advocate for the southern…
SINCLAIR, William Frederick. 1849? — 15.5.1900, when 51. British Civil Servant in India. Son of William Sinclair, D.L. Joined I.C.S. in 1866, arrived at Bombay 1868. Served in various administrative positions in Bombay Presidency, in the 1880s Collector in Kolaba, finally 1890-94 Senior Collector in Thana, then retired. Publications: Archaeological and…